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Subject: help with ctwm
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Hello. I have recently installed FBSD and it works well on my home
computer. However, X sometimes does strange things.

1. Sometimes, when I start X using the startx program, the session just
hangs. All I see is dotted gray background. The window manager does not
start and the mouse pointer does not move. I have to kill the session with
CTRL-ALT-BKSPC  If I then rerun startx, the session works just fine.

2. If I run xdm from rc.local, it starts up OK, but then after I log in,
the window manager does not start, and the screen just has a gray
background, and at the top, there is a patch of distortion. For fear of
damaging my monitor, I kill this session with CRTL-ALT-BKSPC  So I cannot
run xdm.

3. The third strange thing is with ctwm, the optional window manager that
is supplied on the CDROM. After it has started up, I left-click to get the
programs menu. If I then select a program (eg. xterm, xcalc, xmag, xv),
the mouse pointer changes to a clock, and it does nothing, even if I wait
for many minutes. If I then click both mouse buttons (I have enabled
emulate 3 button mouse in X config) the selected program starts instantly.
If I then close this program and restart it from the menu, it starts OK.
Any subsequent programs start just fine. Only the first instance behaves
in this strange way. Is there anything I might have misconfigured here?

I have edited the system-wide xinitrc file to contain only 2 lines at the
end:

xclock &
ctwm

My hardware is Pentium 166, Cirrus Logic 5430 2 MB SVGA card, microsoft
compatible 2 button mouse, EIDE 2.1 G samsung hard disk

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Anand

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